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After Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., compared homosexuality to incest, bigamy, and adultery, Savage embarked on a campaign to coin a new noun, “santorum,” to be defined as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the product of anal sex.” But some of Savage’s antics are less innocuous. In 2000, he penetrated the presidential campaign of the Republican Gary Bauer, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage. Savage wrote a column for the online magazine Salon that, after being diagnosed with...
...With a singular or plural noun. Not any. (e.g., 1804 ‘E. DE ACTON’ Tale without Title: “I never reads no Novels; for I knows nothing they are good...
...also rejected the British-led effort to forgive much of the developing world's debt. Even Iraq could come back to haunt the relationship. Europe's reaction to what Bush characterized as "a stunning success" at the polls was so nuanced that it seemed to demand a compound noun all its own. If schadenfreude is pleasure at the discomfort of others, then what is discomfort at the pleasure of others? Freudenschmerz? Maleuphorie? Many Europeans seemed to acknowledge the success of the vote only grudgingly - perhaps because the media had prepared them only for the worst. Roland Schatz, head of Medien...
...Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whose interventions forced the U.S. to scrap its own plan for a handpicked government to write the new constitution and instead accept Sistani's demand for elections. Indeed, many voters at the polls saw voting as a means of ending ?the occupation,? the collective noun by which many Iraqis - even cabinet ministers - refer to the U.S. presence. In other words, Iraqi voters didn't necessarily see themselves as marching in President Bush's freedom parade; many saw themselves voting to ask it to leave town...
Style. It’s a noun (“Britney Spears has style”), a verb (“she styles her own hair every day”) and occasionally an adjective (“Girl, you are stylin’ today!”). It’s even a profession (“Miss Spears is with her stylist right now”). Here in Cambridge, the populace is not exactly known for its innovative sense of style. Even the architecture is too old to be hip. But nonetheless, as FM discovered, Harvard Square...